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contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms xiii Introduction 1 1 Putting Molecular Biology and Medical Diagnosis into Metal Brains: Operations Research and the Origins of Biomedical Computing 19 2 Building Tomorrow’s Biomedicine: The National Institutes of Health’s Early Mission to Computerize Biology and Medicine 67 3 The LINC Revolution: The Forgotten Biomedical Origins of Personal Computing 124 4 A New Way of Life: Computing in the Lab, in the Clinic, and at the Foundation 171 5 Martians, Experts, and Universitas: Biomedical Computing at Stanford University, 1960–1966 220 Conclusion 269 Notes 277 Essay on Sources 323 Index 331 This page intentionally left blank ...